Wikipedia down in UK only?

Energize · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:28

I have just noticed that I cannot load wikipedia at all in the UK, but it loads fine when I connect through a VPN to another country.

Why would this be?

Deleted member 77746 · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:35

Nope it's fine on my connection and I'm in the UK. Routing issues with your ISP maybe.

andy_mk3 · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:35

Working fine here. Might be a DNS issue. Using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 here.

G-MAN2004 · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:35

I was just about to post the same thing. It loads through my VPN connected to a UK server, but not without.

Edit: Virgin Media and AdGuard DNS

GGizmo · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:41

What's your ISP and which dns servers are you using?

robfosters · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:49

Seems to be down Europe wide. Lots of posts on is it down right now

Minstadave · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:50

Fine for me.

Rroff · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:51

Working fine for me.

Raggs · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:53

won't load here on virgin media, but working okay on 02 mobile broadband

Malevolence · 26 Jan 2020 at 17:57

Fine here (on Plusnet), in fact I currently have the Earache Records Wiki page open in another tab.

Energize · 26 Jan 2020 at 18:05

BowdonUK said:
What's your ISP and which dns servers are you using?

Virgin Media, I can ping the domain fine so it can't be a dns issue.

stillcarp · 26 Jan 2020 at 18:14

I am on virgin media and I can connect to wiki uk, Ireland etc with no issues.

EGuitarStar · 26 Jan 2020 at 19:15

Energize said:
Virgin Media, I can ping the domain fine so it can't be a dns issue.

That means the FBI are tracking your Internet activities.

Energize · 26 Jan 2020 at 20:33

EGuitarStar said:
That means the FBI are tracking your Internet activities.

Not with my VPN they aren't.

It's back up now so who knows what was going on, checking around a lot of people in Europe had problems today.

Malevolence · 26 Jan 2020 at 20:46

Energize said:
It's back up now

Not here it ain't. Despite it working fine all day, it's now down here.

darkgen · 26 Jan 2020 at 20:47

Malevolence said:
Fine here (on Plusnet), in fact I currently have the Earache Records Wiki page open in another tab.

Malevolence said:

Not here it ain't. Despite it working fine all day, it's now down here.

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I'm on Plusnet and it's accessible for me, just slowwwwwwww ..

wesley · 26 Jan 2020 at 20:50

Slow probably cos.of kobe

Malevolence · 26 Jan 2020 at 20:54

darkgen said:
I'm on Plusnet and it's accessible for me, just slowwwwwwww ..

What I'm getting now.

Pawnless Endgame · 26 Jan 2020 at 21:29

I'm getting the same guys, and like others said, I can spoof a different country on my VPN and it works.

PlusNet here.

Also, someone here mentioned Cloudflare. Does anyone know how to get rid or any workaround? In the browser's status bar, I occasionally see "waiting for Cloudflare", also waiting for ajax.googleapis.com, and waiting for maxcdn.bootstrap.com. Then the site times out.

Multiple browsers, devices. VPN sometimes gets around the issue but not always. Cloudflare, Googleapis and Maxcdn all seem to be recent things. The internet was better / more responsive when these weren't around. 5+ years ago.

darkgen · 26 Jan 2020 at 21:32

Odd; it's become really responsive for me just randomly clicking on page links within page links on PN.

I'm connected via ptn-ag04.plus.net.